This solar powered light is so different than all the others I have, and I love it! I have a number of the standard/boring solar garden light stakes along my patios and they tend to stop working after a year or so due to the panel. I've only had this light a month, so I can't speak to it's durability, but it is so fun to look at! It looks like a firework suspended in mid-air and I like how you can bend & move the individual strands to make it look the way you want. It's large & bright and beautiful.